GEEKOUTn. The act of engaging in intense and excited conversation over a highly technical topic or otherwise geeky subject. The term alludes to the intimacy of a makeout session, wherein the participants relish in one another’s expertise in the subject. In 2011 we felt the need to start a conference, highly technical but not forgetting [...]
Who is Jevgeni Kabanov? Creator of JRebel, founder and CEO of ZeroTurnaround, husband and a father. What does your typical day look like? Some meetings, some writing, some thinking. My working tools are now Powerpoint, Word and Excel (or their Google Docs analogies) more than anything. Not to mention Skype. What do you do in [...]
Who is Aaron Patterson? (Please read this in a film noir voice) Aaron Patterson is a man. A man driven slightly mad from being forced to program Java for too many years. He grew up on the streets of Salt Lake City, just a mile past the wrong side of the tracks. A place where [...]
Who is Nathan Weizenbaum? I’m a coder from Seattle. I recently graduated from the University of Washington with B.A.s in Computer Science and Philosophy; now I’m working at Google Seattle on offline Gmail. I’ve worked on Haml since late 2006 and Sass since it was created in 2007. I’ve been the lead developer for both [...]
Who is Ilya Grigorik? I am a tinkerer, an entrepreneur, a software developer and a blogger – roughly in that order. I am currently the founder and CTO of PostRank (postrank.com), which is where all of the above job descriptions, as well as many others, come to occupy all of my time. Formally, I have [...]
Who is Charles Oliver Nutter? I am a developer on the Java platform who loves alternative languages and wants to help keep the JVM the best managed runtime available.
Who is Ola Bini? Ola Bini is a Swedish developer with a large interest in programming languages. He spends most of his time focusing specifically on languages such as Java, Ruby and his own languages.
Who is Jörn Zaefferer? A human being from Cologne, Germany. Working as software developer and consultant, mostly Java-based desktop and web applications. Team member of the jQuery project, heavily involved in the development of QUnit and jQuery UI.
Who is Fogus? A programmer in Northern Virginia. I am co-authoring a book entitled The Joy of Clojure with Chris Houser.
Who is Daniel Spiewak? Vell, Daniel’s just zis guy, you know?
Who is Robey Pointer? An infrastructure engineer at Twitter (@robey). Recently, I’ve been on the FlockDB & Gizzard teams there, and in the past I’ve done things like kestrel, paramiko, and eggdrop. I live in the Mission district of San Francisco, where I like to hang out at the local whiskey bars, but I grew [...]
Who is Chris Pederick? I am a developer originally from England, but now living in San Francisco. I moved out here with work and originally worked with clients at an agency mainly as a back-end developer focused primarily on Java. I am now a front-end developer at a sports startup called Bleacher Report. The idea [...]
Who is Sergio Bossa? I’m a software developer, sometimes hands-on architect too, with a true passion for clean, elegant and efficient code and architectures, who likes being constantly challenged, learn new things and share them with peers. That’s probably the reason that I love open source (and open communities) so much: open source is the [...]
Who is Viktor Klang? I’m a senior systems analyst at Yves Rocher during the day, where i do Java development, system architecture, project management and other Swiss-army-knife duties, and at night I wear a colorful spandex outfit and fight crime… and contribute code, thoughts and time to the Akka project as well as the Atmosphere [...]
Who is Derek Chen-Becker? I’m a code craftsman and proud father of two highly energetic little boys. My job title is actually Senior Network Engineer/Security Architect, but I work in a small IT shop and I do just about everything from software development to server administration on top of my networking duties. Probably about two [...]
Who is Marius Danciu? I’m a programmer coming from Java world. I’ve been designing and architecting server side applications for more then 8 years. I fell in love with Scala a few years ago and for more than 2 years I’m a LiftWeb comitter enjoying every minute of it. I’m a co-author for “The Definitive [...]
Who is Heiko Seeberger? I’m an OSGi expert and Scala enthusiast. While running WeigleWilczek, a small software company, I am still a daily hacker. I am an active open source committer to Lift and Eclipse and creator of the ScalaModules project. Beside of my job I am a dad and a climber, not necessarily in [...]
Who is David Pollak? A dad. A geek by birth. A lawyer by training. I’ve been doing software for pay since 1977 starting on the Apple ][, fell in love with NextStep, then Java, then Ruby/Rails and finally Scala.
